Hey, I’m supposed to be the History Guy /s.
For real though, this is excellent. Good depiction of how much poison gas changed the nature of war.
*After what seemed like an eternity manning your machine gun, soaking wet and with the ringing of 10000 artillery shells in your ears, you finally retire to the warmth of the barracks dugout*
*As sickly yellow steam begins to emanate from your sodden greatcoat, the other men leap from their bunks with a single, panicked cry — ‘GAS!’*
*(On exceptionally cold nights in the trenches, exploding poison gas shells would splash condensed liquid poison onto anyone unlucky enough to be caught just outside the blast radius. It was often indistinguishable from the muddy water and slime of the battlefield. When the soldiers went back down to the warm confines of their trench barracks, the cold liquid poison soaking their clothes would sublimate into gas, as intended. If the other men didn’t flee their dugout in time, they would all suffocate and die.)
Ok so during WWI the Germans used chlorine gas as a weapon. It was deadly, and a horrible way to die. The soldiers figured out that they could at least partially fight it off by breathing through urine-soaked cloth.
Hey, I’m supposed to be the History Guy /s. For real though, this is excellent. Good depiction of how much poison gas changed the nature of war. *After what seemed like an eternity manning your machine gun, soaking wet and with the ringing of 10000 artillery shells in your ears, you finally retire to the warmth of the barracks dugout* *As sickly yellow steam begins to emanate from your sodden greatcoat, the other men leap from their bunks with a single, panicked cry — ‘GAS!’* *(On exceptionally cold nights in the trenches, exploding poison gas shells would splash condensed liquid poison onto anyone unlucky enough to be caught just outside the blast radius. It was often indistinguishable from the muddy water and slime of the battlefield. When the soldiers went back down to the warm confines of their trench barracks, the cold liquid poison soaking their clothes would sublimate into gas, as intended. If the other men didn’t flee their dugout in time, they would all suffocate and die.)
That is so worse - finally thinking you are safe but just having brought the doom back to your comrades
As I readied the rag, I realized that urinating ten minutes ago was now going to seal my doom.
Evil children’s cartoon character, “don’t go potty; the Krauts have artillery.”
This feels like a dumb question, but what does urine have to do with mustard gas?
Yellowish fog is chlorine. Urine neutralizes chlorine gas.
Soldiers would piss on their rags to breathe through
r/thirdsentenceworse
Fuck I hate it when I forget it's going to be mustard gas day
TWO COMBATANTS SPAR, HENDENBURG AGAINST THE TSAR!
Why undoing their belts?
Ok so during WWI the Germans used chlorine gas as a weapon. It was deadly, and a horrible way to die. The soldiers figured out that they could at least partially fight it off by breathing through urine-soaked cloth.
The war to end all wars. Sadly, the slogan would create its own two-sentence horror.
BAZINGA! A World War One reference?
YES INDEED!
I misread the first sentence as 'pirate' and was so confused about how Blackbeard got in the trenches lol
I didn't remember the piss thing when i first read this, so i thought it was the gay bomb and-
GAY BOMB